The invader name got me
And that is true.
Although, Dark souls is one of the few games that fills me with fear when i play it,cause the enemies in it are actually a threat. Can't tell you how many times I have ran away to in order to fight guys one on one.

I get super spooked when invaders have odd weapons, or a weird armor/weapons set. like super heavy armor and a fast weapon
like this one guy, he invaded me with a whip and a greatshield and absolutely destroyed me like he hooked up with me at a bar late at night. I just don't know how to deal with them, then i make mistakes.

I always look for a way to turn a fair fight into a cheap one (just like IRL).
Only a dumbass fights a fair fight. Its a fight. All is fair in that, be it a nut shot or pocket sand. or spell cast that guy while running the **** out of there

A lot of people don't care that much, I'm not trying to sound like hot **** cuz im trash but basically all i need is hornet and chloranthy ring and i'm good, a lot of times i use untrue dark ring cause i like how my character looks without a helmet, and for the 4th one i don't care very much. regardless of the rings though as long as i have those 2 essential ones, the rest really don't affect my chance of winning.

After seeing your comment I finally decided to see what shadowplay is since it's been on my PC forever. This ****** amazing. It's constantly recording the game and just saves when you tell it to. Thank you.

I highly recommend using
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, it's a free software that records your session (or you can go in to the settings which are really easy to understand) and change it to record the last X amount of time or just when you hit a button to start recording. Also it has fulll screen 1080p 60fps and if you're like me and record everything all the time, you can press alt+f2 to book mark moments so when you close the game on the Plays time line there's a little flag there.

Once you have a moment you like you can make a clip and upload it to your Plays page where other people and friends can see it.

windows 10 has plays.tv built in? Also what do you mean it doesn't work well with some games?

For me it only seems to capture kills/deaths/assists in CSGO and League but shadowplay doesnt even do that so other than that I don't see what you mean by it doesn't work well.

That said, I've used both and plays is way better because it's so easy and smooth to use. recording is one button and making it so everyone can see the clips is one button and takes a second to upload. With shadow play it just leaves the file on you desktop (which plays can do to) but then you can't do anything with it unless you take it to youtube. Which plays also can do now.

I mean, W10 has GameDVR (same thing Xbox One uses), which you can configure to record gaming sessions at almost no performance cost (similar to shadowplay, but SP has less of an impact, difference beeing very small, aprox 1 to 2 frames) as well as telling it to save the last 3 minutes of gameplay after you press the hotkeys (xbox controller's guide button does this wonderfully). You can share your recordings on Xbox LIVE, Facebook, or upload them to youtube.

Also, I meant GameDVR doesn't work well because it doesn't work that well in older games because it performs the best when you're playing in Borderless Fullscreen mode (the feature has a GUI built in to the OS that recognizes games and apps, but the GUI is only able to appear when the game or app is not in fullscreen mode), which pretty much all older games don't support. This means if you want to record them, you have to play in a window.

I have never used plays.tv as I tend not to record, but I have used GameDVR a lot to share goofs and glitches with my XBL friends, even though I don't own a Xbox One.

but does it affect fps at all? Shadowplay is so good not only because it prerecords or w/e you call it, also because its gives absolute minimum fps impact. Like 2-3 fps. Like really, i cant record with fraps, but i can record silky smooth with shadowplay.

Cool, but you're invading my world. I don't need to hear your sob stories. I don't gank, I always play through the game alone, so I don't want to he hearing "invaders have a tough time" when most invaders in my world are the ones with the advantage (the environment). Don't complain when I bring you down to my level and remove your advantage.

You have a health bonus, invaders do not. Alternatively, you could just not use an ember and be done with that part of the game. Just remember to suicide after a boss.

I don't gank either. Invasions are not necesarily ganking. Most red phantoms won't be assholes unless hosts are. This includes having a group of phantoms assisting, or using the Seed. My experience anyway. ymmw If I were to meet you, and you were alone, I would definitely fight you on your terms (not like I would have a choice). Again, from my experience, this is the norm. So no running from combat, or using estus (unless you do), you know, normal, DkS1-style stuff.

I will play cheaply if I have to though. Not much to do when it is 3v1 or 4v1, and they can infinitely stunlock someone.

Also, I say that invaders have a tough time in general, but I did not consider that whining. It's definitely part of the fun. Winning 2v1 or 3v1 really gets the blood rushing. Although, I suck, so that happens once in a million fights

But yeah, be mindful of using the Seed. An invader could break a quest if you are unlucky. Unless they patched that, but I don't think they did.

I don't want to play unembered. I wholeheartedly accept invasions, if the lore says that people go around stealing people's tongues for their waifu, I'd accept being in a scenario to defend my tongue.

Also, I don't really consider the ember bonus to be that much useful. At most, you can survive another hit from a Straight Sword (provided it's not a 40/40 refined Dark Sword), and the seed is only for cowardly players, not necessarily for people like you. It's not like I get to use it much anyway, since you only get one every three boss kills.

That's when I drop a Giant Seed. Let the NPCs flush the asshole out.
I remember after beat the Pontiff and there was the fight club arena right there - I got mass invaded. At no point did I have fewer than 2 phantoms trying to murder me. Dropped the seed, hid on the ramp, watched as all but one got murdered by Silver Knight archers, and the last one was kind enough to kill the archers for me.

i had someone hiding on me, so i stood at an archway in the new darksouls 3 when it came out, he came barreling at me, an di just jumped back, and watched as he got unsummoned form the boss arch. oh my gosh he raged and raged in messages, it was ******* funny as hell. And when he was done bitching, my only response was 'next time don't hide like a bitch' lol, i cleared the entire damn zone, ****** hid the entire time, screw that, i'll fight the ******* boss if i want to lol

The beauty of the game is there is no wrong class. Find what style works best for you.
Personally? I go high endurance, heavy weapon/shield, but light armor (preferably with fire resist).
My sister goes high str/health build - eats up the damage and then smacks the hell out of things.
Your thief can become a brilliant Dex build - practice your parry and dodge roll on the tutorial enemies.

Knight is definitely the way to go. The shield is perfect for someone not used to dodge rolls, but don't expect it to save your life all the time - some enemies hit extremely hard to the point where your stamina will be depleted no matter how much you level endurance, so you could be in trouble. Try to get used to dodging big attacks that have windups, just so you can get better at dodging quicker stuff. The starting Longsword is also one of the best weapons in the game, so you can stick with it for a while.